Quartet™ Tool Comparisons

SCM Labs is constantly working to better communicate what our SCM solutions can provide. In the 1990's, it was very common to meet people from development organizations who had no idea what the term Software Configuration Management meant. Today, that's all changed. It's quite rare to find someone in the software development space who hasn't at least heard of Software Configuration Management.

Given that's where the market is today, it makes sense to communicate what Quartet™ can do by comparing it's features and functionality to other tools on the market which you may have experience with.

Customers who have had great success with Quartet™ typically fall into one or more of the following camps:

• Needs a solution that supports an end-to-end yet light-weight process, is easy to implement, low cost administration, and focuses on improved productivity while keeping track of change;
• Needs a common solution to support multi-platform environments;
• Wants to upgrade from ad-hoc or version control only tools into something more comprehensive without spending tons of money.

We've chosen the following set of tools to compare with Quartet™ because these tools seem to be used by customers today well suited for a Quartet™ upgrade.

• MS Visual Source Safe (VSS)
• CVS - Read recent article "CVS Users are Finding Favor with Quartet™ 3.0"
• Perforce
• PVCS Version Manager